Crossword-Solution: NEANT 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The pretence of belief in its existence will no longer answer anybody's purposes (now Prince Bismarck is dead) unless the purposes of the writers of sensational paragraphs as to this _Neant_ making an armed descent upon the plains of India.

For good or evil in the working out of her destiny, Russia is bound to remain a _Neant_ for many long years, in a more even than a Bismarckian sense.

The great governmental secret of that imperium which Prince Bismarck had the insight and the courage to call _Le Neant_, has been the extirpation of every intellectual hope.

Her expectations, more or less vaguely expressed, give the measure of her ignorance of that _Neant_ which for so many years had remained hidden behind this phantom of invincible armies.

There is an awe-inspiring idea of infinity conveyed in the word _Neant_--and in Russia there is no idea.